Staying true to my vision, to the word as it comes to me, to my own aesthetic judgments, even when they disagree… — Micheline Aharonian Marcom Copy Share Image
In Western culture, particularly North America, a lot of rules are descriptors for sociopathy: a general acceptance of lying as long as… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Ferbin's father had had the same robustly pragmatic view of religion as he’d had of everything else. In his opinion, only the… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
On the plane the other day, there was man who was wearing a tank top, shorts and Birkenstocks - and I don't… — Charles Finch Copy Share Image
Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
I detest tradition for tradition's sake; the half-alive; that which is not real. I feel no hatred of individuals, but of customs,… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
In history, in most cultures, and at most points in time, if you want to find the most advanced technologies, you can… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Religion has in fact outdone culture in dualistic thinking - we've become as violent, as hateful toward our enemies, damning them to… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The basic idea that the purpose of life is to be happy or is to experience the most favorable ratio of pleasure… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Sound preservation is not only the history of our culture and our country but also a document of life in the world.… — Michael Feinstein Copy Share Image
The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every individual's listening is as unique as his or her fingerprints because we all listen through filters that develop from our personal… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
Within your culture as a whole, there is in fact no significant thrust toward global population control. The point to see is… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I feel like today's culture seeks at every turn to place more and more power in the hands of the individual. Bookstores… — Matthew West Copy Share Image
The core of the culture is racism and how black men are viewed. They've always been demonized and seen as threats in… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Startup culture fosters laughter, debate, and a passionate, non-politically-correct focus on getting things done. And this startup of culture is something entrepreneurs… — Clay Clark Copy Share Image
Our society is falling back increasingly on rampant consumerism and self-promoting social media as a way for people to feel that their… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
We celebrate Thanksgiving along with the rest of America, maybe in different ways and for different reasons. Despite everything that's happened to… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
I think as the world changes, we have to keep up. We have to note what is happening, and I think writing… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it. We live in a culture that… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
My own thinking has evolved. You find Africanisms in American speech. You find an African influence on United States culture. There are… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
Los Cabos has been an amalgam of many cultures that have been coming here. There have been beautiful Jesuit missions for example,… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
Young people, especially young men due to culture and perhaps testosterone, dream about changing the world, making an impact, doing big things.… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
We're in a culture where everything is either consumption or production, so child care is either a very, very bad-paying form of… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
All companies have a culture, some companies have discipline, but few companies have a culture of discipline. When you have disciplined people,… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
“Capitalism tends to do to art what value meals do to cuisine. Think of what the food industry in our nation has… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
Our present culture may be largely shaped by this strange idea of isolating children's thought from adult thought. Perhaps the way our… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
It's funny that Chairman Mao's great hero was Napoleon, because Napoleon started out as a revolutionary for the underdogs and then made… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
“Something else emerges from this discussion about us as human individuals: we're not fixed, stable intellects riding along peering at the world… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“កត្តាដែលភ្លេចអក្សរសាស្រ្តជាតិរបស់ខ្លួនហ្នឹង អាចនឹងធ្វើឲ្យពួក គេថ្ងៃក្រោយមិនអាចដឹងនូវ ដើមកំណើតឫសនៃមូលដ្ឋានជាតិរបស់គេនោះ កូនចៅខ្មែរក្រោមអាចនឹងកា្លយជាជនជាតិវៀត ណាមទៅវិញ ។ I think in the future, the younger generation of Khmer Krom people could forget the… — Thach Preichea Koeun VOA News Copy Share Image
We, including many Christians, read the Bible through "eyes" conditioned by, and even accommodated to, modern Western culture plus the influences of… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
The usual marriage in traditional cultures was arranged for by the families. It wasn't a person-to-person decision at all. . . .… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
A lot of issues that we have in the world today rise from the fact that we do not know enough about… — Huma Qureshi Copy Share Image
We can't just rail against crime. We must speak of the root problems - devastating family breakup, an insidious culture of violence… — Frank Wolf Copy Share Image
in order to confer their lost Nationality upon exiled Jews , the British with the help of the League of Nations began… — M. S. Golwalkar Copy Share Image
Childhood is analogous to language learning. It has a biological basis but cannot be realized unless a social environment triggers and nurtures… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Don't lie to anyone, but particularly don't lie to millennials. They just know. They can smell it. Be yourself: if you're old,… — John Green Copy Share Image
